Moir’s Environmental Dialogues

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December 29th 2010:The Great Penguin Rescue Saving a Species from Extinction - Special Encore Presentation!

Dyan DeNapoli, author of the newly released book The Great Penguin Rescue, tells the remarkable story of the largest and most successful wildlife rescue ever mounted. On June 23, 2000, an iron-ore carrier named the Treasure foundered off the coast of Cape Town between two of the main breeding islands for the African penguin. Already classified as a species vulnerable to extinction, the oil slick threatened to destroy nearly half the world population.

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Dyan DeNapoli

Dyan deNapoli, a former Senior Penguin Aquarist at Boston’s New England Aquarium, has worked with and written about penguins since 1995. Known as The Penguin Lady, she travels internationally to teach audiences about penguin biology and conservation. She has been the onboard penguin expert on nature cruises to the Galapagos Islands and Antarctica, and has appeared on numerous radio and TV shows, including CNN’s Situation Room and BBC Radio. In 2000, she worked as a rehabilitation supervisor during the largest and most successful rescue of animals ever undertaken following the Treasure oil spill in South Africa. DeNapoli’s newly released book, The Great Penguin Rescue, chronicles this extraor